New Delhi: A day after Hathras rape victim succumbed to her grievous injuries in a Delhi hospital, the body of the 19-year-old Dalit woman, was cremated here in the early hours of Wednesday, with her family alleging the local police forced them to conduct the last rites in the dead of the night.

As news of her death spread, protests broke out in Delhi as well as in Hathras with all sections of society, including politicians, sports and cine stars, and activists, expressing their anguish and demanding justice for her.

On Wednesday after the reports of forced cremation started doing rounds across social media platforms, Twitter users demanded the resignation of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath with several hashtags trending on the micro-blogging site.

Hashtags #YogiMustResign #ResignAdityanath #HathrasHorrorShocksIndia were top trending on Twitter which had grossed lakhs of tweets at the time posting of this report.

Here are some of the tweets from Wednesday’s campaign demanding the resignation of Yogi Adityanath.

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Mangaluru: The Mangaluru Lokayukta Division’s Special Public Prosecutor K. S. N Rajesh has been reportedly accused of attempting rape against a female law student. The victimized law student has filed an FIR in this regard at the Pandeshwar Women’s Police station, it is learned. 

The 20-year-old victim, who is a law student from Mangaluru, had joined advocate K. S. N. Rajesh’s Karangalpady office for training on August 8. Amid this, Rajesh had tried to persuade the young woman to engage in physical relations with him. In the complaint, the victim has accused that Rajesh had called her into his chamber on September 25 and behaved indecently towards her and later attempted to rape her, it is learned. 

K S N Rajesh had been working as the Special Government Prosecutor for the past several years and was in charge of handling corruption cases that were registered in the Lokayukta. He had been reportedly appointed as the government-assigned prosecutor to argue in favour of the victims of corruption in cases registered with the Lokayukta. Because of this, Rajesh had earned a respectable place in Mangaluru. 

An audio recording of the alleged phone conversation between the law student and Rajesh had surfaced in the public sphere two days ago. In the interaction, he is heard persuading her to come to the office and assuring her of not repeating previous actions. He is also heard pleading and requesting her to leave the matter and end it right there, it is learned.

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